[Tech] Fcp sizes and time

[juergen urner]

Matthew Toseland schrieb:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 21:44, Jerome Flesch wrote:
>   
>> I commited a patch into the node to make it possible to ask for expected 
>>     
> data 
>   
>> types with FCP.
>> See http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0GetConfig , 
>> http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0ConfigData .
>>
>> I hope it will help you (anyway it will help me :)
>>
>> For periods, I can't make the data type more specific than "string" at the 
>> moment, sorrry.
>>
>> Currently, I'm wondering if it would also be a good idea to convert all the 
>> values into basic units (-> in bytes) and let the client apps displays it in 
>> a more user-friendly way ? (I'm not really sure how the client would handle 
>> values like '1025' ...)
>>     
>
> Exactly, there's a reason why we keep the original string. If the user wants 
> 12 GiB then we should remember that it's 12GiB and not 12884901888 bytes.
>   

You are right. I change my question to: why are there kbytes and* kibiytes?
I wouldn't mind forcing one or the other upon every other client around by
the way my client handles it.


Juergen